happened with george bush and with the iraq war and, you know, i quote tonight's benjamin israeli on the danrs of exporting democracy. he wrote a piece when he was infuriatingly young about the dangers of trying to export democracy to lands run by despotic priests, unquote, only he meant catholics. [laughter] i think the problem came with george bush who was, by the way, as easily as often and as unfairly demonized by liberals as president obama is conservatives. no question about that. and i would not defend any of those attacks on him. the revenge just won over cultally. the attitude towards the press which sounds like a small thing but a great piece in the new yorker said that the bush administration treated journalists as if they wer a special interest group. the secrecy, the lack of candor shall we say about the lead up to the war in iraq, these are consequential things, and they seem rooted in what i call a revan. ist view of how to govern and how to conduct politics. that is to say -- and i think dick cheney had much to doith it -- that you know best, your ideals are purist, and anyone